Speech intermediaries.
ISPs are central intermediaries for massive quantities of communications in the modern world,
and face and have built a complex patchwork of legal rules and industry practices to
negotiate these issues. From their own efforts to police spam with trespass to chattels
doctrine, to the contingent safe harbors of the DMCA § 512, the actions of Internet
access & service providers shape our communications landscape.

ISP Practices & Policies research (ongoing).

"Intellectual Property and Free Speech in the Online World: How
Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist
Letters and Takedown Notices" (with Marjorie Heins), Public policy report from the Fair Use
Network, NYU Brennan Center for Justice (2007) (PDF).

Democracy, representation, and alternative voices. Those excluded from
power are often the first to
use new and alternative means of communication. Unfortunately, archival and preservation
efforts generally lag behind the technology, learning to understand the value of the speech,
and then rushing to capture and preserve it. Digitization offers unparalleled opportunities
to capture, document, and preserve alternative voices, the subaltern, feminist and radical
histories that express themselves in a variety of media that would otherwise be lost.
Digitization, however, is only the first step in preserving these histories. Without public
dissemination and access, the hidden and forgotten histories may stay hidden. To facilitate
digital distribution and reproduction in a permissions culture, traditional legal norms and
library practices need to be retrofitted.